#pulptober

[krinsbez]

Pulptober 2026 Prompts...Part One

Ok, so we're doing something a little different this year.

As had an absolotuely HORRIBLE time coming up with Themes last year, and was not really satisfied with them at all, i am going to ask y'all for help. As such, anyone who wants to can suggest a Theme that matches the Character of any given day, and hopefully, come September we'll have a full set. Obviously, I myself will be plugging in any holes.

1-The Shadow/

2-Doc Savage/

3-The Green Hornet/

4-Buck Rogers/

5-The Lone Ranger/

6-Ogon Bat/

7-Modesty Blaise/

8-Conan/

9-Moon Knight/

10-Captain Nemo/

11-Coffy/

12-The Count of Monte Cristo/

13-Elric of Melnibone/

14-Lupin III/

15-Captain Future/

16-The Dragon Lady/

17-Hellboy/

18-The Green Lama/

19-The Punisher/

20-Sheena/

21-Imaro/

22-The Man With No Name/

23-The Saint/

24-Guo Jing/

25-Silver John/

26-Zorro/

27-Paperinik/

28-The Spider/

29-Steed & Mrs. Peel/

30-Dark Agnes/

31-Batman/

[themailedfist-blog]

Pulptober 16th - Meta Pulp - The Venture Bros.

Boy, where do I even start? The Venture Bros. is a brilliantly funny show even if you aren't familiar with the deep well of artistic tradition it's drawing from, but it is orders of magnitude more hilarious if you *do* know what they're referencing.

For those not familiar, the show centers around the Venture family, the immediate descendants of a broad-chested pulp hero (and phenomenal piece of shit) named Jonas Venture Sr. Jonas' son Rusty has set up permanent shop in his father's shadow along with his sons, Hank and Dean, their terrifying bodyguard Brock Sampson and an ever-increasing cast of side characters referencing more and more esoteric pop culture artefacts. The early seasons are pretty 'monster-of-the-week' in format, you can pick up almost anywhere there and you won't be too lost. My personal recommendation for first episode is s1e6: 'Ghost of the Sargasso', it was my first exposure to the series and I fell in love almost immediately.

It might be one of my favourite shows ever aired. Somewhere around here there's a photo of me in a terrible handmade Henchman 21 outfit at a convention.

[oldtvandcomics]

Pulptober 2025 - 1: The Shadow

Aaaaand we're off!! I'm actually really hyped for this year's Pulptober. I want to try and use my brush pens more, I have this amazing brush pen set that I never use because I always just stick with colored pencils. I also want to copy old artwork instead of trying to put the characters into my own pictures, which is going to make it all very relaxing. AND I have started a new notebook!! My old one only has like five to seven pages left, and I wanted Pulptober to be together this year. It has such nice thick pages, the brush pens didn't bleed through at all!!

Anyway, here is the Shadow, as copied from the July 15 1939 issue of The Shadow magazine.

[aadamantine]

for pulptober i have been listening to so much the shadow.

if your circle isnt talking about

methods that may become available to law enforcement

defending the innocent

goodrich tires and blue coal

YOUR NET WORK IS YOUR NET WORTH

[richdannys]

I knew I would have to commit to taking a crack at the Day 29 prompt for this month's PULPTOBER.. Dave Stevens is probably my favorite artist after Frazetta. And I was lucky enough to get to know Dave and call him a "Friend", before he passed away in 2008. In hindsight, I realize now that he was exceedingly kind and generous with me. So, I definitely wanted to do justice to a Pinup of the character he created and made famous!!

[skjam]

Pulptober Day 8: Wandering Hero

Yes, yes, I know I'm backfilling.

My choice for today is John Eric Stark, aka N'Chaka the Tribeless One, a planetary romance hero. His backstory is that he was orphaned early in life and raised by Native Mercurians on the sun-blasted planet of Mercury. That tribe was wiped out by Terran poachers, who imprisoned young N'Chaka, planning to sell him, until a Space Patrol officer named Simon Ashton rescued and adopted him.

John Eric Stark grew up to be a mercenary warrior, not always on the right side of the law. But in "Queen of the Martian Catacombs", his introductory story, Stark is contacted by Ashton, who offers him a pardon in exchange for going undercover to investigate a plot to instigate civil war among the peoples of Mars.

One of Stark's notable characteristics is that he has extremely dark skin, almost black, due to his childhood on Mercury. The pulps he appeared on the cover of almost never got this right.

Author Leigh Brackett got busy with her Hollywood career, and took a long hiatus from doing John Eric Stark stories. When she came back to the character, far more was known about the planets of our solar system, making them less useful for planetary romance stories.

Thus we have the Ginger Star series. Skaith is a dying world. Its sun is slowly growing colder, plunging larger and larger areas of its planet into eternal winter. The Galactic Union wants to evacuate Skaith's people to gentler worlds, but what passes for the planetary government are xenophobic isolationists and refuse to cooperate. Ashton, now a senior diplomat, had been sent to work with dissident groups who would voluntarily emigrate, but has now disappeared.

The Galactic Union is going hands-off, so it's up to lone wolf Stark to head to Skaith to find out what happened to Ashton and either rescue or avenge him. A complication arises when it turns out that there's a local prophecy about a Dark Man who will come from the sky to destroy the Lords Protector. Stark may or may not be the Dark Man, but the local cops aren't taking any chances!

Read more of my reviews of these at

Magazine Review: Planet Stories Summer 1949 – SKJAM! Reviews

and

Book Review: The Ginger Star – SKJAM! Reviews

[chronivore]

9-The Count of Monte Cristo/A New Identity

[sully-hope]

iv. Self Sacrifice